1.  manufacturer(n = noun.group) maker, manufacturing business - a business engaged in manufacturing some product;
is a kind of business, business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern
has particulars: armorer, armourer, bottler, auto maker, auto manufacturer, automaker, car maker, car manufacturer, carmaker, computer business
Derived form verb manufacture₁

2.  manufacturer(n = noun.person) producer - someone who manufactures something;
is a kind of maker, shaper
has particulars: arms manufacturer, brewer, distiller, food manufacturer, sericulturist, cyrus hall mccormick, cyrus mccormick, mccormick, john mercer, mercer, isaac m. singer, isaac merrit singer, singer, eli whitney, whitney
Derived form verb manufacture₁

   One who manufactures. [1913 Webster]

N  doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator, executor, executrix, practitioner, worker, stager, bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant, laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum, workman, artisan, craftsman, handicraftsman, mechanic, operative, working man, laboring man, demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy, hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack, mere tool, beast of burden, drudge, fag, lumper, roustabout, maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan, carpenter, ganger, platelayer, blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright, machinist, mechanician, engineer, sempstress, semstress, seamstress, needlewoman, workwoman, tailor, cordwainer, minister, servant, representative, coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis, dramatis personae, personnel, quorum pars magna fui, faber est quisque fortunae suae.

arms manufacturer, auto manufacturer, car manufacturer, food manufacturer